Well, can't try it before I'm back home at the end of the month.
But, I would just add my 2 cents to the -nagging- topic.
I see people complaining already, that this DEMO is not any better than actual FS9 with addons.... and water wets and fire burns, lalalalala.
It's obvious that it can't outstand FS9 with a shitload of high end addons.
Seen yet FSX with those addons ? No, you can only compare comparable things : compare FS9 "virgin" install on TNCM and FSX demo. Those who will tell me they prefear FS9, I won't believe much (excepting because of too old PC).
MS knows that addon makers can do outstanding things, and they prefear to create this FS not loosing time on default aircraft they know hardcore simmers like us won't use anyway (you do it in FS9 ? For liners ? Come on... stop kidding). And the dad who plays it for fun the sunday afternoon won't notice that "the flight dynamics are not very realistic during the V1 to V2 transition when the plane is at MTOW between 350 and 400 tons, on wet runways when gustings reach 15 knots, according to real life Boeing test pilots".
It was thought for addon developpers (after more than one year of surveys in the community : us), should be easier, faster, more flexible and powerful, to permit more realism. Now think about the DEMO, they may have put final meshing for the ground, environment, etc... in it, probably they thought that 2GO for a St Marteen's demo was a bit out of limits (wouldn't you ?). And obviously I expect more on LFPG or EGLL in scenery than on TNCM, so wait and see.
Now you say FS is becoming a nintendo game heh ? Ok, and going away from a real flight simulator ? How ? Because they added funny missions ? Because they added scenery that is not needed at FL360 ? What bunch of screwers those MS devs !
For the missions, there is a workaround i thought of : don't play them. For the scenery, there is one too, tune the options (whatever I don't think the boats will be loaded up in memory at FL360). What if you ask a VFR pilot ? Won't he tell you that it adds realism ?
"I expected more from Microsoft".... Comment after seeing something like a teaser demo.
They probably expect more from the community. If I was a dev of FS, I would be pissed really. They try to sell more FS ? Shame on them ! What do you think will happen if they sell only to hardcore simmers ? Not enough money, no more FS. You'll have to play (whoooops, fly on, it's not a game, is it ?) on Laminar Research's X-Plane. Good luck, it's very good, like Linux is, still you are using Windows, and FS.
P.S. : I'm not flaming, angry, at anyone, I'm just exposing my point of view and anyone is free to contest and argument it. I'm not a MS fan, but I like to be objective and fair.
